Welcome to our Carmelite Monastery

“Our life with God draws us to the deepest empathy with the sorrows, the joys and the hopes so confidently entrusted to our prayers each day”

We are Discalced Carmelite Nuns, daughters of St.
Teresa of Avila. We are consecrated to Jesus Christ by a life of unceasing prayer lived in a cloistered community of women. His love has called us to live together as sisters in a small family in order to help one another and to pray for the needs of the Church and the world.

Our life with God draws us to solidarity with the sorrow, the joys and the hopes so confidently entrusted to our prayers each day.

We lift these concerns daily to the heart of God, Who is Love and Who understands our every need.

"Prayer, in my opinion, is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us."(St. Teresa - Life, 8, 5)

"Let us desire to be occupied in prayer not for the sake of our enjoyment but so as to have the strength to serve."(St. Teresa -Interior Castle VII :4 11)

"If contemplating, praying, taking care of the sick, helping with household chores, and working even at the lowliest task are all ways of serving the (Divine) Guest who comes to be with us … what difference does it make whether we serve in one way or the other?"(St. Teresa -Way of Perfection)

"This union with God’s will is the union I have desired all my life; it is…the one that is clearest and safest."(St. Teresa -Interior Castle V:5)

"The truth is that the treasure (God) lies within our very selves."(St. Teresa -Interior Castle V:1)

"The safest way is to want only what God wants."(St. Teresa -Interior Castle VI:9)

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Listen to Harp music performed by
Catherine Anderson for the Carmelite Nuns

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Painting

Visit our Meditations Page ... to see a painting of St. Teresa of Avila,
by our own Sr. Anne Marie.